The Seagull giveaway
One summer at a lakeside Russian estate, friends and family gather for a weekend in the countryside. While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a tragicomedy unfolds about art, […]
Movies
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: Beast Early in Michael Pearce’s deliciously clever debut feature, a young woman called Moll (Jessie Buckley) stares into the mirror and plucks a single long hair from just under her chin. […]
The Lavazza Italian Film Festival’s top five
Always a hot ticket item here on Sydney’s Norton Street, the Lavazza Italian Film Festival is spreading itself widely across Palace Cinemas’ Sydney venues all this month from Sept 11, as well as running in […]
Custody giveaway
The astonishing, break-out critical discovery of the Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Director and Best Debut Film, Xavier Legrand’s heart-stopping French drama Custody charts a family’s struggles with the fallout of divorce, […]
Win tix: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
Gus Van Sant triumphantly returns with “one of his best” After Portland slacker John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) nearly loses his life in a car accident, the last thing he intends to do is give up […]
Local cinemas this week
Two outstanding docos, two amazing men… McQueen There’s a such an incredible wealth of details in this exhaustive, (exhausting!) portrait of Lee Alexander McQueen, the prodigiously talented British fashion designer who hung himself at the age of […]
Win tickets to the Italian Film Festival
Ever since 2006 Ciao has been able to offer its readers a chance to win tickets to the Lavazza Italian Film Festival, which opens at Palace Norton Street on Sept 11 and in other states […]
Film festival favourites
No less than six films from the Sydney Film Festival are arriving on our local screens this week. Some may be hard to find, but you really should make an effort to seek out these […]
French new wave classics on screen
The Alliance Française Classic Film Festival is returning for the fourth time to Palace Norton Street for a season of eternal French cinema this month. The festival is also running in Melbourne and Perth later, and […]
Beast giveaway
Be careful what you unleash Moll (Jessie Buckley) feels suffocated by her oppressive family and the small island community in which she lives. When she meets mysterious outsider Pascal (Johnny Flynn), she finally experiences a […]